Program

 
  October, 7th  
  
09 h – Opening ceremony: Maria de Lourdes  Aguiar Oliveira (VPPCB/Fiocruz), Tania Araujo-Jorge (director, IOC/Fiocruz), RPT/Fiocruz Representative, Geraldo Pereira (organizing committee)
 
Session 1
Chair: Roberta Olmo (IOC/Fiocruz)

09:15 h – Opening Conference - Molecular and Cellular Architecture of Granulomas: from monoclonal antibodies to spatial profiling Robert Modlin (University of California Los Angeles, USA) 
 
10:15 – 10:30 h – Coffee break
 
Session 2 –  New horizons on prevention and control of mycobacterial diseases
Chair: Cristina Pessolani (IOC/Fiocruz)

10:30  - 12 h 
Marcela Henao-Tamayo (Colorado State University, USA) - Strategically targeting mucosal immunity increases the effectiveness of tuberculosis vaccines
Cynthia Carolina Diaz Acosta (Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud. Paraguay): Experiences in tuberculosis and leprosy research in Paraguay
 
12:00 - 13:15 h - Lunch break
 
Session 3 –  Immunometabolic crosstalk in bacterial infections 
Chair: Flavio Lara (IOC/Fiocruz)

13:15  - 14:45 h 
Kushboo Borah (Surrey University, UK) - Metabolic flux reprogramming in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected human macrophages
Hyungjin Eoh (Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA): Metabolomics: Chemical biology at the intersection of pathogenesis and antibiotic discovery
Flavio Lara (Fiocruz, Brazil): Exploring M. leprae metabolism to develop in vitro drug test platforms 
 
14:45 – 15:10 h – Coffee break
 
Session 4 –  Precision medicine: from the lab to the benchside
Chair: Geraldo Pereira (IOC/Fiocruz)

15:10  - 16:40 h 
Irina Giurgea  (Sorbonne University, France): Somatic mosaicism in autoinflammatory diseases
Rogério Lopes Rufino Alves (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil): Seeking the Holy Grail, biomarkers in pulmonary fibrosis
Zilton Vasconcellos (Fiocruz, Brazil): The national network of genomic of inborn innate immunity errors 

   October, 8th  
 
Session 5 – New visions in inflammatory responses
Chair: Vinícius Cotta Almeida (IOC/Fiocruz)

09:00 - 10:45 

Marcello Rubessa (Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, Illinois USA): Spatial Single-Cell Trancriptomics
Bruno Jorge de Andrade Silva (University of California Los Angeles, USA): "Unraveling T-cell Biology with single-cell RNA-sequencing"  
José Carlos Farias Alves Filho (São Paulo University, Brazil): Control of regulatory T cell differentiation and stability during inflammation
 
10:45 – 11:00 h – Coffee-break
 
Session 6 – Translational investigation in complex diseases
Chair: Roberta Soares Faccion (IFF/Fiocruz)

11:00 - 12:00 
Carlos Alberto Almeida de Araújo (Rio Grande do Norte Federal University, Brazil): Integration between clinical research, teaching and outreach activities at the Onofre Lopes University Hospital/Ebserh.
Kenneth J Gollob (Center for Research in Immuno-oncology, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil) - Identifying Biomarkers and Mechanisms of Immunotherapy Response in Metastatic NSCLC
 
12:00 – 13:15 h  - Lunch break
 
Session 7 –  Inflammatory diseases
Chair: Zilton Vasconcelos (IFF/Fiocruz)

13:15  - 15:00 h 
Sonia Karabina (Sorbonne University, France): Inflammasomes and cell death in health and disease
- Serge Amselem (Hôpital Armand-Trousseau, France): Genetics of rare inflammatory diseases
Rosane Teles (University of California Los Angeles, USA): Regulation of Lipid-Associated TREM2+ Macrophages in Response to Mycobacterial Infection
 
15:00 – 15:15 h – Coffee break
 
Session 8 – Host-immune defense molecules
Chair: Thabatta Rosa 

15:15 - 16:45 h 
John Belisle (Colorado State University, USA): Alteration of Host Metabolic Pathways by Mycobacterial Infections
Vinícius Cotta de Almeida (Fiocruz, Brazil): Genetic and immunotherapeutic targeting of VLA-4 integrin in T cells – implications for studies on inflammatory diseases
  

   October, 9th   

Session 9 –  Selected Abstracts
Chair: Leticia Lery (IOC/Fiocruz)
9:00 - 10:45 h

Diego Augusto Souza Oliveira (Fiocruz) - Construction of an in vitro culture model for Mycobacterium leprae, aiming for a drug testing platform and production of transgenic strains.

Otto Castro Araújo (Fiocruz) - ApoE biosynthesis in Mycobacterium leprae infection and its role in immunomodulation.

Atta Ur Rahman (Fiocruz) - Indoleamine 2,3 Dioxygenase (IDO) is important for the maintenance of cell metabolic activity in Schwann cells stimulated with Mycobacterium leprae.

Jessica Valeriano (UERJ) -Cannabinoid receptor type 2 agonist GP1a attenuates macrophage activation induced by Mycobacterium bovis-BCG by inhibiting NFKB signaling

Guilherme Iack Pinheiro da Cruz (UFRJ) - Immunoinflammatory role of lipid droplets induced by mycobacteria in dendritic cells: Mechanisms involving DGAT-1 and PGE2

Palloma Porto Almeida (UERJ) - Phenotypic and Functional Alterations in Human Monocytes Induced by Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles

Juliana Pavan Zuliani (Fiocruz) - L-amino acid oxidase from Calloselasma rhodostoma (Malayan Pit Viper) venom interacts with FPR1 receptor and induces vital NETosis in human neutrophils
10:45 – 11:00 h – Coffee break
 
Session 10 – Making multiomic approaches available for the scientific community 
Chair: Mariana Gandini (IOC/Fiocruz) - 11:00 - 11:45 
Milena Hasan (Pasteur Institute, France): State-of-the-art approaches for advanced immunomonitoring in health and disease 
 
Chair: Mariana Gandini (IOC/Fiocruz) - 11:45 - 12:15 
- Tiago Titz (Thermo Fischer): Flow Cytometry: Bigfoot Spectral Cell Sorter.

12:15 – 13:30 h - lunch-break
 
Session 11
Chair: RPT/Fiocruz (activity exclusive for RPT/Fiocruz members)
13:30  - 16 h - Encontro das Plataformas de Citometria da Rede da Rede de Plataformas Tecnológicas Fiocruz - RPT